bhadram : bhadrám (ám), ind. happily, fortunately, joyfully, [RV.]; [AV.]

bhadram : (°am) with √ kṛ or ā-√ car, to do well, [Hit.]

bhadra : bhadrá mf(A/)n. blessed, auspicious, fortunate, prosperous, happy, [RV.] &c. &c.

bhadra : good, gracious, friendly, kind, [ib.]

bhadra : excellent, fair, beautiful, lovely, pleasant, dear, [ib.]

bhadra : good i.e. skilful in (loc.), [MBh. iv, 305]

bhadra : great, [L.]

bhadra : (with nṛpati m. a good or gracious king, [Yājñ.]; with kānta m. a beautiful lover or husband, [Pañcat.]; with diś f. the auspicious quarter i.e. the south, [MBh.]; with vāc f. kind or friendly speech, [BhP.]; voc. m. and f. sg. and pl. , °dre, °drāḥ, often in familiar address = my good sir or lady, my dear or my dears, good people, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.)

bhadra : bhadrá m. (prob.) a sanctimonious hypocrite, [Mn. ix, 259] (v.l. °dra-prekṣaṇikaiḥ)

bhadra : a partic. kind of elephant, [R.] (also N. of a world elephant, [ib.]) a bullock, [L.]

bhadra : a water wagtail, [Var.] (cf. -nāman)

bhadra : Nauclea Cadamba or Tithymalus Antiquorum, [L.]

bhadra : N. of Śiva, [L.]

bhadra : of mount Meru, [L.]

bhadra : of a class of gods (pl.) under the third Manu, [BhP.]

bhadra : of a people (pl.), [AV.Pariś.]

bhadra : of one of the 12 sons of Viṣṇu and one of the Tuṣita deities in the Svāyambhava Manv-antara, [BhP.]

bhadra : (with Jainas) of the third of the 9 white Balas, [L.]

bhadra : of a son of Vasu-deva and Devakī (or Pauravī), [BhP.]; [Kathās.]

bhadra : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]

bhadra : of a son of Upacārumat, [Buddh.]

bhadra : of an actor, [Hariv.]

bhadra : of a friend of Bāṇa, [Vās., Introd.]

bhadra : (with Buddhists) N. of a partic. world

bhadra : bhadrá n. prosperity, happiness, health, welfare, good fortune (also pl.), [RV.] &c. &c. (bhadraṃ tasya or tasmai, prosperity to him! [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 73]; bhadraṃ te or vaḥ often used parenthetically in a sentence = ‘if you please’, or to fill up a verse; bhadram upalāh, happiness to you, O stones! [Śāntiś.]; bhadram with √ kṛ and dat., to grant welfare to, bless, [RV.])

bhadra : gold, [L.]

bhadra : iron or steel, [L.]

bhadra : kind of Cyperus (= -musta), [L.]

bhadra : a partic. posture in sitting, [Cat.]

bhadra : bhadrá n. a partic. Karaṇa, [L.] (cf. f.)

bhadra : bhadrá n. a partic. mystic sign, [AgP.]

bhadra : a partic. part of a house, [Nalac.]

bhadra : N. of various Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c.

aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.]

aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az].

api : ápi or sometimes pi (see pi-dṛbh, pi-dhā, pi-nah), expresses placing near or over, uniting to, annexing, reaching to, proximity, &c.

api : [cf. Gk. ἐπί; Zend api; Germ. and Eng. prefix be]

api : in later Sanskṛt its place seems frequently supplied by abhi.

api : (As a separable adv.) and, also, moreover, besides, assuredly, surely

api : suppose that, perhaps, [Jātakam.]

api : api api or api-ca, as well as

api : na vāpi or na apivā or na nacāpi, neither, nor, cāpi, (and at the beginning of a sentence) api-ca, moreover.

api : is often used to express emphasis, in the sense of even, also, very

api : e.g. anyad api, also another, something more

api : adyāpi, this very day, even now

api : tathāpi, even thus, notwithstanding

api : yady api, even if, although

api : yadyapi tathāpi, although, nevertheless

api : na kadācid api, never at any time: sometimes in the sense of but, only, at least, e.g. muhūrtam api, only a moment.

api : may be affixed to an interrogative to make it indefinite, e.g. ko 'pi, any one

api : kutrāpi, anywhere.

api : imparts to numerals the notion of totality, e.g. caturṇām api varṇānām, of all the four castes.

api : may be interrogative at the beginning of a sentence.

api : may strengthen the original force of the Potential, or may soften the Imperative, like the English ‘be pleased to’;

api : sometimes it is a mere expletive.

api : api tu but, but yet.

api : (api-api), as well-as, ib.

vātaya : Nom. P. °yati (cf. √ 2. vāt and [Dhātup. xxxv, 30]), to fan, ventilate, [Kāś.]

vat : an affix (technically termed vati; see [Pāṇ. v, 1, 115] &c.) added to words to imply likeness or resemblance, and generally translatable by ‘as’, ‘like’ (e.g. brāhmaṇa-vat, like a Brāhman; pitṛ-vat = piteva, pitaram iva, pitur iva and pitarīva).

vat : See api-√ vat.

manaḥ : in comp. for manas.

manas : mánas n. mind (in its widest sense as applied to all the mental powers), intellect, intelligence, understanding, perception, sense, conscience, will, [RV.] &c. &c. (in phil. the internal organ or antaḥ-karaṇa of perception and cognition, the faculty or instrument through which thoughts enter or by which objects of sense affect the soul, [IW. 53]; in this sense is always regarded as distinct from ātman and puruṣa, ‘spirit or soul’ and belonging only to the body, like which it is — except in the Nyāya — considered perishable; as to its position in the various systems See for Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika, [IW. 63]; [67]; [76], for Sāṃkhya and Vedānta, [ib.] [84]; [109]; [117]; in [RV.] it is sometimes joined with hṛd or hṛdaya, the heart, [Mn. vii, 6] with cakṣus, the eye)

manas : the spirit or spiritual principle, the breath or living soul which escapes from the body at death (called asu in animals; cf. above), [ib.]

manas : thought, imagination, excogitation, invention, reflection, opinion, intention, inclination, affection, desire, mood, temper, spirit, [ib.] (ifc. after a verbal noun or an inf. stem in °tu = having a mind or wishing to; cf. draṣṭu-m° &c.; manaḥ √ kṛ, to make up one's mind; with gen., to feel inclination for ; manaḥ √ kṛ, pra-√ kṛ, √ dhā, vi-√ dhā, √ dhṛ, √ bandh and Caus. of ni-√ viś with loc. dat. acc. with prati, or inf., to direct the mind or thoughts towards, think of or upon; manaḥ with sam-ā-√ dhā, to recover the senses, collect one's self; with √ han See mano-hatya; mánasā ind. in the mind; in thought or imagination; with all the heart, willingly; with gen., by the leave of; with iva = °seva, as with a thought, in a moment; with √ man, to think in one's mind, be willing or inclined; with saṃ-√ gam, to become unanimous, agree; manasi with √ kṛ, to bear or ponder in the mind, meditate on, remember; with ni-√ dhā, to impress on the mind, consider; with √ vṛt, to be passing in one's mind)

manas : N. of the 26th Kalpa (s.v.), [Cat.]

manas : of the lake Mānasa, [BhP.]

manas : manaso dohaḥ N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

manas : [cf. Gk. μένος; Lat. Miner-va.]

dakṣa : dákṣa mf(A)n. able, fit, adroit, expert, clever, dexterous, industrious, intelligent, [RV.] &c.

dakṣa : strong, heightening or strengthening the intellectual faculties (Soma), [ix f.]

dakṣa : passable (the Ganges), [MBh. xiii, 1844]

dakṣa : suitable, [BhP. iv, 6, 44]; [Bhartṛ. iii, 64]

dakṣa : right (opposed to left), [RāmatUp. i, 22]; [Phetk. i]

dakṣa : dákṣa m. ability, fitness, mental power, talent (cf. -kratú), strength of will, energy, disposition, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

dakṣa : evil disposition, [RV. iv, 3, 13]; [x, 139, 6]

dakṣa : a particular form of temple, [Hcat. ii, 1, 390]

dakṣa : a general lover, [W.]

dakṣa : a cock, [Car. i], [vi]

dakṣa : N. of a plant, [L.]

dakṣa : fire, [L.]

dakṣa : Śiva's bull, [L.]

dakṣa : N. of an Āditya (identified with Prajā-pati, [TS. iii]; [ŚBr. ii]; father of Kṛttikā, [Śāntik.]), [RV. i f.], [x]; [Nir. ii], [xi]

dakṣa : N. of one of the Prajā-patis ([MBh. xii, 7534]; [Hariv.]; [VP. i, 7, 5] and [22, 4]; [BhP. iii, 12, 22]; [MatsyaP. cvl, 15]; [KūrmaP.] &c., [Śak. vii, 27]; born from Brahmā's right thumb, [MBh. i], [xii]; [Hariv.] &c.; or from A-ja, ‘the unborn’, [BhP. iv, 1, 47]; or son of Pra-cetas or of the of 10 Pra-cetasas, whence called Prācetasa, [MBh. i], [xii f.]; [Hariv. 101]; [VP. i, 15]; father of 24 daughters by Pra-sūti, [VP. i, 7, 17 ff.]; [BhP.] &c.; of 50 [or 60 [MBh. xii, 6136]; [R. iii, 20, 10]; or 44 [Hariv. 11521 ff.]] daughters of whom 27 become the Moon's wives, forming the lunar asterisms, and 13 [or 17 [BhP.]; or 8 [R.]] those of Kaśyapa, becoming by this latter the mothers of gods, demons, men, and animals, while 10 are married to Dharma, [Mn. ix, 128 f.]; [MBh. i], [ix]; [xii, 7537 ff.]; [Hariv.]; [VP.] &c.; celebrating a great sacrifice [hence dakṣa syáyana, ‘N. of a sacrifice’, [Mn. vi, 10]] to obtain a son, he omitted, with the disapproval of Dadhīca, to invite Śiva, who ordered Vīra-bhadra to spoil the sacrifice, [Hariv. 12212] [identified with Viṣṇu] ff.; [VāyuP. i, 30], = [BrahmaP. i]; [LiṅgaP.]; [MatsyaP. xiii]; [VāmP. ii]-[v]; [ŚivaP. i, 8]; [KāśīKh. lxxxvii ff.]; named among the Viśve-devās, [Hariv. 11542]; [VāyuP.]; [Bṛhasp.] [[Hcat.]] &c.)

dakṣa : N. of a son of Garuḍa, [MBh. v, 3597]

dakṣa : of a man with the patr. Pārvati, [ŚBr. ii, 4, 4, 6]

dakṣa : of a law-giver, [Yājñ. i, 5]; [Mn. ix, 88], Sch. &c.

dakṣa : of a son of Uśī-nara, [BhP. ix, 23, 2]

dakṣa : of one of the 5 Kānyakubja Brāhmans from whom the Bengal Brāhmansare said to have sprung, [Kṣitīś. i, 13] and [41]

dakṣa : dákṣa cf. a-tūrta-, diná-, samāná; su-dákṣa; mārga-dakṣaka; dākṣāyán.

dakṣa : [cf. δεξιός; Lat. dex-ter; Goth. taihsvs.]

uta : mfn. (fr. √ ve, q.v.), sewn, woven.

uta : utá ind. and, also, even, or, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c.

uta : often used for the sake of emphasis, especially at the end of a line after iti or a verb (e.g. sarva-bhūtāni tam pārtha sadā paribhavanty uta, all creatures, O king, certainly always despise him, [MBh. iii, 1026]), [MBh.]; [Bhag.] &c. (As an interrogative particle, generally at the beginning of the second or following part of a double interrogation) or, utrum-an (e.g. katham nirṇīyate kiṃ syān niṣkāraṇo bandhur uta viśvāsa-ghātakaḥ, how can it be decided whether he be a friend without a motive or a violator of confidence? [Hit.]), [Kum.]; [Kathās.]; [Bhartṛ.]; [Sāh.] &c.

uta : in this sense it may be strengthened by āho (e.g. kaccit tvam asi mānuṣī utāho surāṅganā, art thou a mortal woman or divine? Nala), or by āho-svit (e.g. śālihotraḥ kiṃ nu syād utāhosvid rājā nalaḥ, can it be Śālihotra or king Nala?) Rarely kim is repeated before used in this sense (e.g. kim nu svargāt prāptā tasyā rūpeṇa kimutānyāgatā, has she arrived from heaven or has another come in her form? [Mṛcch.]), [Amar.]; [MBh.] &c. (As a particle of wishing, especially at the beginning of a sentence followed by a potential) would that! utinam! (e.g. utādhīyīta, would that he would read!) ( preceded by kim) on the contrary, how much more, how much less (e.g. samartho 'si sahasram api jetuṃ kimutaikam, thou art able to conquer even a thousand, how much more one, [R.]), [Śak.]; [Vikr.]; [Ragh.] &c. ( preceded by prati) on the contrary, rather (e.g. eṣa pṛṣṭo 'smābhir na jalpati hanti praty-uta pāṣāṇaiḥ, this one questioned by us does not speak, but rather throws stones at us), [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.] &c.

uta : uta vā, or else, and (e.g. samudrād uta vā purīṣāt, from the sea or from the moisture in the air)

uta : vā — uta vā or utāho vāpi — vā, either — or

uta : — , both — and (e.g. uta balavān utābalaḥ, both the strong and the weak)

uta : kim — uta vā, whether — or else.

uta : mfn. woven &c. See 1. , p. 175, col. 2.

kratu : krátu m. (√ 1. kṛ, or 2. kṛ), plan, design, intention, resolution, determination, purpose, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.]

kratu : desire, will (instr. krátvā, willingly, readily, [RV.]; ékena krátunā, through the mere will, [RV. ii, 13, 11])

kratu : power, ability, [RV.]

kratu : deliberation, consultation, [RV.]; [VS.]

kratu : intelligence, understanding (e.g. bhadrá krátu, right judgement, good understanding; also in conjunction or in comp. or ifc. with dákṣa See krátu-dákṣau and dakṣakratū́), [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]

kratu : inspiration, enlightenment, [RV.]

kratu : a sacrificial rite or ceremony, sacrifice (as the Aśva-medha sacrifice), offering, worship (also personified, [R. vii, 90, 9]), [AitBr.]; [ŚBr. xi]; [ĀśvŚr.] &c.

kratu : Kratu as intelligence personified (as a son of Brahmā and one of the Prajā-patis or the seven or ten principal Ṛṣis, [Mn. i, 35]; [MBh. i, 2518] & [2568]; [Hariv.] &c.; [N. of a star] [VarBṛS.]; married to Kriyā and father of 60,000 Vālikhilyas, [BhP. iv, 1, 39]; husband of Haya-śirā, [vi, 6, 33])

kratu : N. of one of the Viśve-devās, [VP.]

kratu : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP. x, 61, 12]

kratu : of a son of Ūru and Āgneyī, [Hariv. 73]

kratu : of the author of a Dharma-śāstra, [Parāś.]; [Śūdradh.]

kratu : krátu m. or f. (?), N. of a river in Plakṣa-dvīpa (v.l. kramu), [VP.] [cf. a-, ádbhuta-, abhí-, &c.; cf. also κράτος.]

adha : ádha or ádhā ind., Ved. (= átha, used chiefly as an inceptive particle), now; then, therefore; moreover, so much the more; and, partly. ádha—ádha as well as, partly partly.

sakhya : sakhyá n. friendship, intimacy with, relation to (loc. or instr. with and without samam, saha &c.), fellowship, community, [RV.]; &c.

andhas : ándhas n. darkness, obscurity, [RV.]

andhas : ándhas n. (Gk. ἄνθος), a herb

andhas : the Soma plant

andhas : Soma juice, [RV.]; [VS.]

andhas : juice, [ŚBr.]

andhas : grassy ground, [RV. vii, 96, 2]

andhas : food, [MBh. iii, 13244]; [BhP.]

vi : ví m. (nom. vís or vés acc. vím gen. abl. vés; pl. nom. acc. váyas [acc. vīn, [Bhaṭṭ.]]; víbhis, víbhyas, vīnā́m) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), [RV.]; [VS.]; [PañcavBr.], (also occurring in later language).

vi : [cf. 1. váyas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]

vi : n. an artificial word said to be = anna, [ŚBr.]

vi : ví ind. (prob. for an original dvi, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to sam, q.v.) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without, [RV.] &c. &c. In [RV.] it appears also as a prep. with acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb, e.g. [i, 181, 5]; [x, 86, 20] &c.) It is esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (cf. vi-√ bhid, -śiṣ, -dhā, -rudh, -car, with their nominal derivatives)

vi : sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (e.g. √ krī, ‘to buy’; vi-√ krī, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (e.g. √ hiṃs, ‘to injure’; vi-√ hiṃs, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. ví may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (cf. 1. vi-lakṣaṇa), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (cf. vi-citra), ‘intensity’ (cf. vi-karāla), ‘manifoldness’ (cf. vi-vidha), ‘contrariety’ (cf. vi-loma), ‘deviation from right’ (cf. vi-śīla), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (cf. vi-kaccha, being often used like 3. a, nir, and nis [qq.vv.], and like the Lat. dis, se, and the English a, dis, in, un &c.)

vi : in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (cf. vi-jāmi, vi-jāmātṛ)

vi : it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (e.g. vi-koka, vi-pṛthu, vi-viṃśa). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article

vi : but words having several subordinate compounds will be found s.v.

mada : máda m. hilarity, rapture, excitement, inspiration, intoxication, [RV.] &c. &c.

mada : (du. with madasya N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])

mada : ardent passion for (comp.), [MBh.]

mada : (ifc. f. ā) sexual desire or enjoyment, wantonness, lust, ruttishness, rut (esp. of an elephant), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

mada : pride, arrogance, presumption, conceit of or about (gen. or comp.), [ib.]

mada : any exhilarating or intoxicating drink, spirituous liquor, wine, Soma, [RV.] &c. &c.,

mada : honey, [Ragh.]

mada : the fluid or juice that exudes from a rutting elephant's temples, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

mada : semen virile, [L.]

mada : musk, [L.]

mada : any beautiful object, [L.]

mada : a river, [L.]

mada : N. of the 7th astrol. mansion, [Var.]

mada : Intoxication or Insanity personified (as a monster created by Cyavana), [MBh.]

mada : N. of a son of Brahmā, [VP.]

mada : of a Dānava, [Hariv.]

mada : of a servant of Śiva, [BhP.]

mada : máda n. N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

ran : raṇ or (cf. √ ram) cl. 1. 4. P. ráṇati, ráṇyati (2. du. raṇyáthaḥ, [RV. i, 112, 18]; pf. rāraṇa or raraṇa, [RV.]; aor. arāṇiṣuḥ, raṇiṣṭana, [ib.]), to rejoice, be pleased, take pleasure in (loc., rarely acc.), [RV.]; to gladden, delight, gratify, [ib.] : Caus. raṇayati, °te, to cheer, gladden, exhilarate with (instr. or loc.), [RV.]; to be at ease, be pleased or satisfied with, delight in (loc.), [ib.]; [TS.]; [AV.] : Intens. (Subj. rāráṇat, rārán; Impv. rārandhi, rārantu) = Caus. (as well in the trans. as in the intrans. meanings), [RV.]

ran : See √ 1. raṇ.

ran : rán (meaning doubtful), [RV. i, 120, 7] (accord. to [Sāy.] = rātārau or dātārau, ‘givers’, fr. √ ā, the sg. being substituted for the du.)

gav : in Ved. comp. for gó

na : the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1]-[39]).

na : ná ind. not, no, nor, neither, [RV.] (nā, [x, 34, 8]) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. [Mn. iv, 34]; or strengthened by another particle, esp. at the second place or further on in the sentence, e.g. by u [cf. no], utá, api, cāpi, vā, vāpi or atha vā, [RV. i, 170, 1]; [151, 9]; [Nal. iii, 24], &c.; it may even be replaced by ca, vā, api ca, api vā, &c. alone, as, [Mn. ii, 98]; [Nal. i, 14], &c.; often joined with other particles, beside those mentioned above esp. with a following tu, tv eva, tv eva tu, ced, q.v., khalu, q.v., ha [cf. g. cādi and [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 31]] &c.; before round or collective numbers and after any numeral in the instr. or abl. it expresses deficiency, e.g. ekayā na viṃśati, not 20 by 1 i.e. 19 [ŚBr.]; pañcabhir na catvāri śatāni, 395 [ib.]; with another or an a priv. it generally forms a strong affirmation [cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]] e.g. neyaṃ na vakṣyati, she will most certainly declare, [Śak. iii, 9]; nādaṇḍyo 'sti, he must certainly be punished, [Mn. viii, 335]; it may also, like a, form compounds, [Vām. v, 2, 13] [cf. below])

na : that not, lest, for fear lest (with Pot.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Daś.] &c.

na : like, as, as it were (only in Veda and later artificial language, e.g. gauro na tṛṣitaḥ piba, drink like [lit. ‘not’ i.e. ‘although not being’] a thirsty deer; in this sense it does not coalesce metrically with a following vowel).

na : [cf. Gk. νη-; Lat. ně-; Angl.Sax. ne, ‘not’; Engl. no, &c.]

na : mfn. ([L.]) thin, spare

na : vacant, empty

na : identical

na : unvexed, unbroken

na : m. band, fetter

na : jewel, pearl

na : war

na : gift

na : welfare

na : N. of Buddha

na : N. of Gaṇeśa

na : = prastuta

na : = dviraṇḍa (?)

yavasa : yávasa m. n. grass, fodder, pasturage, [RV.]; &c.

yavasa : &c. See p. 847, col. 3.

vivakṣase : ví-vakṣase (fr. √ vakṣ, or vac or vah, either 2. sg. Ā. or Ved. inf.), occurring only as refrain and without connection with other words in the hymns of Vi-mada, [RV. x, 24] &c. (accord. to [Naigh. iii, 3] = mahat).

vac : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 55]) vakti (occurs only in sg. vacmi, vakṣi, vakti, and Impv. vaktu; Ved. also cl. 3. P. vívakti; pf. uvā́ca, ūj, [RV.] &c. &c.; uváktha, [AV.]; vavāca, vavakṣé, [RV.]; aor. avocat, °cata, [RV.] &c. &c.; in Veda also Subj. vocati, °te, vecāti; Pot. vocét, °ceta; Impv. vocatu; Prec. ucyāsam, [Br.]; fut. vaktā́, [ib.] &c.; vakṣyáti, [RV.] &c. &c.; °te, [MBh.]; Cond. avakṣyat, [Br.]; [Up.]; inf. váktum, [Br.] &c.; °tave, [RV.]; °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. uktvā́, [Br.] &c.; -úcya, [ib.]), to speak, say, tell, utter, announce, declare, mention, proclaim, recite, describe (with acc. with or without prati dat. or gen. of pers., and acc. of thing; often with double acc., e.g. tam idaṃ vākyam uvāca, ‘he spoke this speech to him’; with double acc. also ‘to name, call’, Ā. with nom. ‘one's self’; with punar, ‘to speak again, repeat’; or ‘to answer, reply’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to reproach, revile (acc.), [Hariv.]; [R.] : Pass. ucyáte (aor. avāci, or in later language avoci), to be spoken or said or told or uttered &c., [RV.] &c. &c. (yad ucyate, ‘what the saying is’); to resound, [RV.]; to be called or accounted, be regarded as, pass for (nom., [L.] also loc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Caus. vācayati, °te (Pot. vācayīta, [ĀśvGṛ.]; aor. avīvacat; Pass. vācyate), to cause to say or speak or recite or pronounce (with double acc.; often the object is to be supplied), [Br.]; [GṛS.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause anything written or printed to speak i.e. to read out loud, [Hariv.]; [Kāv.]; [Kathās.] &c.; ([Dhātup. xxxiv, 35]) to say, tell, declare, [Bhaṭṭ.]; to promise, [MBh.] : Desid. vivakṣati, °te (Pass. vivakṣyate), to desire to say or speak or recite or proclaim or declare, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (Pass.) to be meant, [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.] : Intens. (only ávāvacīt) to call or cry aloud, [RV. x, 102, 6.]

vac : [cf. Gk. ἐπ for ϝεπ in ἔπος, εῖπον, ὄψ, ὄσσα &c.; Lat. vocare, vox; Germ. gi-waht, gi-wahinnen, er-wähnen.]